Agents of the Fisheries Inspection Service of the General Directorate of Fisheries of the Canary Islands Government denounced two poachers in El Hierro with 148 kilos of fish, of which 138 kilos and two spearfishing rifles were seized.
Groupers, black croaker, minnows, horse mackerel and blue roosters were the main catches, species of fragile ecological balance that are affected by poaching that has caused serious damage to the Islands, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries warned yesterday in a release.
It adds that last Friday a group of agents from the Fisheries Inspection Service observed an inflatable boat early in the morning, which gave support to two underwater fishermen who carried out illegal activity, both within the spaces authorized for the practice of fishing. spearfishing and outside these areas. These were located at the Los Gigantes dock, in Tenerife, with the captures.
